Human Metapneumovirus: Laboratory Methods for Isolation, Propagation, and Plaque Titration

Intervirology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 301-306

  Bernal, Lilia J ^a   Velandia Romero, Myriam ^b   Guevara, Carolina ^c   Castellanos, Jaime E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

^c Peru   (Peru)

Author keywords

Assay development; Human metapneumovirus; Infection; Isolation; Plaque titration

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; AMIDO BLACK; CRYSTAL VIOLET;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; FLUORESCENCE; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOSE SECRETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNCYTIUM; VIRAL PLAQUE ASSAY; VIRUS ISOLATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GIANT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT, VIRAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRAL LOAD; VIRAL PLAQUE ASSAY;

EID: 85063577361     PISSN: 03005526     EISSN: 14230100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000497309     Document Type: Article

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